Have you got a story you’re itching to tell? Any new or existing ideas you’ve been sitting on that you’d like to develop into a theatre script and receive feedback on?

If you’re not sure where or how to start, or if you’ve had a confidence knock as a writer, this entirely free course may be the next step for you!

Led by Michelle Matherson (BBC Creative Diversity), this talent development programme is carefully designed for you to take your ideas or stories from the page to the stage over an iterative six-month process.

Through fortnightly classes, personalised notes on your script, bespoke 1-2-1s with professional dramaturgs and a community-oriented space to fail, learn and grow, Talawa’s Introductory Writers’ Group (IWG) aims to create a well-curated group of likeminded Black writers who are destined to be the future of writing talent across theatre, radio, TV and film. Uniquely specialising in an Afrocentric approach to plot, narrative, structure, character, dialogue and more, you will gain practical tools that will set you off on your journey as a professional writer.